Diminutive North Korean leader Kim Jong un was shown throwing himself on a coffin of a soldier who was killed fighting for Russia in a bizarre patriotic TV show on state media Monday. The program showed North Korean and Russian officials weeping as they viewed footage of Kim kneeling over a flag-draped casket of one of the hundreds of Koreans he had sent into Moscow’s meat grinder in Ukraine.

North Korea’s state media released footage of Kim Jong Un paying tribute to the flag-draped coffins of soldiers who were killed fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine. The video of the North Korean leader was played at a Pyongyang gala performance on Sunday,